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2003-11-25 Iraq

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Posted by Anonymous 2003-11-25 7:01:07 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 not yet spent their first holiday season in Iraq - a time when the risk of suicide is traditionally at its highest.

BS, there's more support during the holidays, suicides actually drop.

Posted by Shipman 2003-11-25 7:35:09 AM|| 2003-11-25 7:35:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Den Beste looked at this, too, and apparently the suicide rate is equal to or lower than expected:

http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2003/11/Suicidesinservice.shtml

I suspect we're seeing the birth of a new Big Lie to use against the war.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-11-25 8:33:51 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-11-25 8:33:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 sound like half the rate of your average college freshmen class.

Posted by eyeyeye 2003-11-25 8:53:16 AM|| 2003-11-25 8:53:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 No "anonymous" article posts. Flush this turkey.

This has, indeed, been debunked as BS by den Beste.

And RC is absofuckinglutley right.

Posted by .com (Abu No Anonymous) 2003-11-25 9:30:22 AM|| 2003-11-25 9:30:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 ...how did he get his hands on a bottle of Tylenol in the middle of the desert anyway?

Um...Yeah... We just stick them out in the desert and leave them to fend for themselves with no food, water, or mail.

Brilliant reporting.

Posted by Dar 2003-11-25 9:31:19 AM|| 2003-11-25 9:31:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 A bottle of Tylenol WILL kill you.
Some years ago, a friend downed 34 extra strength (17 grams) and then called me. 25 minutes later, he was getting his stomach pumped. It was over 36 hours before the doctors concluded he was going to live. IIRC, LD50 is around 15 grams in a 24 hour period. It doesn't kill directly, but rather destroys the liver. It also stays in the body a long time.

Posted by Dishman 2003-11-25 9:41:39 AM|| 2003-11-25 9:41:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 It's hard to kill yourself with Tylonol alone. You tend to puke it back up. Enough alcohol on board is the preferred method for achieving success. If you take enough Tylonol, and survive, you have a decent chance of success in about 15 years. Sudden liver failure.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2003-11-25 10:01:09 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-11-25 10:01:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 We have more suicide attempts in one month at Parris Island then in one month in Iraq. This is not news.

Posted by Jarhead 2003-11-25 10:57:12 AM|| 2003-11-25 10:57:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 story is on drudge...from a Malaysian paper....Tokyo Rose strikes again....

Posted by milford 2003-11-25 1:39:20 PM|| 2003-11-25 1:39:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Tylenol (acetaminophen) will indeed kill you. It causes fulminant hepatic necrosis -- liver failure. One does not tend to vomit up Tylenol, by the way.

We see several Tylenol overdoses a year in our critical care unit, and they're very tough patients. We've seen a few of these go straight to liver transplant.

Posted by Steve White 2003-11-25 4:35:00 PM|| 2003-11-25 4:35:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 We've seen a few of these go straight to liver transplant

You mean the transplant list?

Posted by Shipman 2003-11-25 7:17:41 PM|| 2003-11-25 7:17:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I changed the story source to a U.S. paper. It's an AP story and I couldn't find it on Utusan Malaysia.

Posted by Fred 2003-11-25 8:55:25 PM|| 2003-11-25 8:55:25 PM|| Front Page Top

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